High radiation outside Japan's evacuation zone, says IAEA

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that high radiation levels were measured recently not only inside, but also outside the 20-km evacuation zone around Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

Asked whether Japan's authorities should consider widening the exclusion zone, a senior IAEA official said: 'There should be a consideration about this.' The official requested anonymity.

At the same time, IAEA officials said radiation rates are declining and levels are not unhealthy in dozens of Japanese cities including Tokyo, for which the Vienna-based agency is receiving official Japanese data.

On Sunday, one measurement 58 km from Fukushima registered 5.7 microsieverts per hour, the IAEA said in data provided to reporters.

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I can't help but think of that movie I saw when I was young - ON THE BEACH.

There are still 8,766 hours in a sideral year.

This amounts to a yearly exposure, ignoring something called, um, nuclear decay - the radioactive decay law, dN = -kdt, shows that activity is inversely proportional to lifetime - amounts to 49 mSv per year.

It's the equivalent of three CT scans in a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert

I strongly suspect that more people died from air pollution from driving to drive ins to see "On the Beach" than have been killed by CT scans.

But you never know. Maybe a nuclear war is the equivalent of a nuclear war.

Maybe, though, a paranoid reaction to the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free primary energy might have an effect on the next tsunami.

D'ya think?

Have a nice day tomorrow.

It happens, and it's ugly. No amount of radiation is "safe", you ought to know that.

Do you spend anytime outside, being bombarded radiation coming from the evil nuclear reactor in the sky?

Do you spend anytime time inside, being bombarded by radiation coming from radon decay?

Do you spend anytime in front a computer...


Oh, nevermind. It's clear we are dealing with some serious ignorance here.

FYI: As far as anyone dear to me having cancer, my father was diagnosed with skin cancer about 6 years ago. Thanks to an eleven week course of radiation treatments, he's still alive today and cancer free. I'm certainly glad he didn't get your memo that "no amount of radiation is safe..." :eyes:

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if you listen to TPTB. They take us for fools.